{"id":896,"date":"2010-11-25T18:13:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T22:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2010-11-25T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T22:13:24","slug":"looking-back-at-ocean-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"LOOKING BACK AT OCEAN RACING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com:80\/Europe\/Admirals-Cup:-Australia-holds-on-firmly-to-proud-history-and-the-cup\/77346\">Admiral&#8217;s Cup<\/a>, started in 1957 lasting until the 90&#8217;s, always one of my favorite events; which in my era included the Fastnet Race.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/cgi-bin\/gforum.cgi?post=10845\">Storm Trysail Club <\/a>honored Ted Turner and the crew of &#8220;Tenacious&#8221;; winners of the infamous 1979 Fastnet Race.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-897\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-897\" href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-897\" title=\"normal_nov25_turner\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/normal_nov25_turner.jpg\" alt=\"ted and the crew of &quot;Tenacious&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/normal_nov25_turner.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/normal_nov25_turner-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted and the crew of &quot;Tenacious&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These events along with the SORC epitomized ocean racing during a certain period of time that remains under recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Admiral&#8217;s Cup, started in 1957 lasting until the 90&#8217;s, always one of my favorite events; which in my era included the Fastnet Race. Recently, the Storm Trysail Club honored Ted Turner and the crew of &#8220;Tenacious&#8221;; winners of the infamous 1979 Fastnet Race. These events along with the SORC epitomized ocean racing during a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOOKING BACK AT OCEAN RACING<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[2421,547],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admirals-cup","tag-admirals-cup","tag-fastnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}